Ok, I swear that arrays and loops will be the death of me, and I still cant find any “Jeez you are stupid so I’ll spell it out slowly and COMPLETELY for you” tutorials.
I have 5 movie clips, currently. and I am positioning them via actionscript. The instance names are nar, mv, dance, bio, clients, contact. (pretty obvious this is navigation for a portfolio site, huh?)
here is the positioning i currently have…
var spacing = (((Stage.width*.75) - (nar._width + mv._width + dance._width + bio._width + clients._width + contact._width))/5);
nar._x = 10;
mv._x = 10+nar._width+spacing;
dance._x = 10+nar._width+mv._width+(spacing*2);
bio._x = 10+nar._width+mv._width+dance._width+(spacing*3);
clients._x = 10+nar._width+mv._width+dance._width+bio._width+(spacing*4);
contact._x = 10 + nar._width + mv._width + dance._width + bio._width + clients._width + (spacing*5);
Now, I know that this can be done with an array and a loop, something like, loop through all movie clips for width, then use the total in the spacing variable, then for each clip in the array, set the _x to 10 + the width of the clips before it + spacing times its array position, but man, I can just NOT figure out the syntax.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
~nik